china and india are prepped to take it. their energy policy will hand it to them because we won't compete. available, affordable energy. mother's milk of the future of this country. and if we don't have a vibrant economy, we will never have the resources to pay down the debt. if we don't drill, opec will. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen please welcome to the stage national blogger with hotair.com, ed morrissey. [applause] >> good morning. i hope you are enjoying a great lineup here. what a great conference we're having, right? absolutely. [applause] >> i'm thinking to myself, americans for prosperity, i don't know, some of you may remember a time when that would have been considered a redundacy. it's like saying swimmers are getting wet. america was built on prosperity. a lot of people don't think about it. some people just flat out deny it. people will tell you that american prosperity was an accident of history. we just happened to land on a continent with a lot of natural resources. we just happened to build a country